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away. Somehow it ate my eyes but I could still see; a filmy membrane
sucked them right out of their sockets. This creature produces valium in
its digestive system. So here I am, a malnourished warrior girl being
slowly dissolved.” Jesus looked over to see Agent 139’s reaction. “I wish
we could be each other for a day.”
Agent 506 grunted his agreement from the back seat.
“What were you thinking about?” Jesus asked him a moment later.
“Well, if you really must know. I was thinking… A biologist with a
history of tooth decay invents a symbiotic microbe which lives in the
human mouth and feeds by cleaning our teeth. It secreted calcium, which
is poisonous to it, controlling its growth and preventing it from eating the
teeth themselves. So this guy, he wants to spread the thing to the world,
but it’d never fly, FDA and human squeamishness and all, so he becomes
a party animal. He throws wild parties at the lab, kisses female grad students,
whores, babies. He backwashes in sodas left on tables. He bums
drags off cigarettes. He grants humanity eternally clean and healthy teeth
but dies of a terrible cocktail of STDs.”
Another beat. “Wait isn’t that kind of what Mother Hive Brain is? I
mean… mimetically… An evolutionary virus…” Agent 139 asked.
“Damnit man, can’t just one thing… just one thing… be taken purely
literally? Just for what it is?” Agent 506 threw his cigarette out the window
with a sharp flick of his wrist and then looked dead-ahead.
Jesus guffawed so hard he almost drove into a blue civic in the other
lane.
“This conversation is over,” Agent 506 said, icily.
M.H.B.S. transmission 12Y:
Leri: Once we can program, we ask ourselves: where are we going?
Where do we want to be?
Rachelle: It works better than one would imagine. Better than ones
imagination could imagine.
Anne: My recent experiences are a testament to that. When we don’t
know what we want, we wind up willing all sorts of contradictory realities
and events into existence. One’s life is a direct manifestation of
one’s being.
Leri: Reverse “life” and “being” and the sentence remains true.
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